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2142 clicks; posted to STEM » on 28 Jan 2023 at 10:14 AM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Driver [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 8:04:13 AM  
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Approves
 
yuthinasia
2023-01-28 10:40:21 AM  
Wondered what happened to my ex boss...
 
some_beer_drinker
2023-01-28 10:42:29 AM  
mmmmmmm....poo
 
Sasquach
2023-01-28 10:59:20 AM  
More improbable things have happened...
 
Schlubbe [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 11:36:40 AM  
America's CEOs anxiously developing a cross-breeding program with their workers and these plants.
 
Mouser
2023-01-28 11:49:47 AM  
Well, crap is fertilizer, though most plants wait until it's composted.  These guys are just cutting out the middlemen.
 
kkinnison [OhFark]
2023-01-28 12:27:16 PM  
How do you get animals and insects to defecate there?  Install bidets? have reading material nearby?
 
Mad_Radhu
2023-01-28 12:31:05 PM  
Next time on Doctor Who:

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All Intensive Purposes [BareFark]
2023-01-28 12:34:41 PM  

kkinnison: How do you get animals and insects to defecate there?  Install bidets? have reading material nearby?


This may sound crazy, but I actually spent about two entire minutes reading, ok skimming through, the article. I know, WHAT?! Anyway, near the end, it mentions a "mutually beneficial relationship with mountain tree shrews: the animals deposit nitrogen-rich waste into the pitchers while they feed on carbohydrates on the plant lids." So, kinda' like fruit.

Is there anything on the planet more like something you'd expect to find on an alien planet than carnivorous plants? Besides republicans, I mean?
 
austerity101
2023-01-28 12:44:16 PM  
Oblig:

True Facts : Carnivorous Plants
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Analgesic
2023-01-28 1:20:40 PM  
Eat shiat and die thrive.
 
SansNeural
2023-01-28 2:32:18 PM  
The Fine Article's Fine Headline:

"Some species of carnivorous pitcher plant, Nepenthes, have switched from capturing and digesting insects to absorbing animal poop for their daily dose of nutrients - and it's a switch that's proving very beneficial."

Makes it sound like something new has happened, recently.  However, their link at:

"As discovered in 2009"

Makes it clear that it's "All of this new understanding" that is recent.
 
SansNeural
2023-01-28 2:35:03 PM  

Schlubbe: America's CEOs anxiously developing a cross-breeding program with their workers and these plants.


Can't be true.  Why would they want their workers to eat them?
 
hegelsghost
2023-01-28 3:23:24 PM  
Amazing plants. I need to get one for my bathroom.
 
E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease
2023-01-28 4:08:55 PM  
pairs well with a telescoping urinal
 
MikeyFuccon
2023-01-28 4:23:46 PM  
I know I read this article in the voice of the original TV series Guide.
 
Jensaarai
2023-01-28 4:37:35 PM  
The research has been published in the Annals of Botany.

*snickers*
 
Excelsior
2023-01-28 5:32:02 PM  

Mad_Radhu: Next time on Doctor Who:

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It's a Turdis?
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 6:28:41 PM  
Poop Thread!!1
 
Otera [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:08:18 PM  

SansNeural: The Fine Article's Fine Headline:

"Some species of carnivorous pitcher plant, Nepenthes, have switched from capturing and digesting insects to absorbing animal poop for their daily dose of nutrients - and it's a switch that's proving very beneficial."

Makes it sound like something new has happened, recently.  However, their link at:

"As discovered in 2009"

Makes it clear that it's "All of this new understanding" that is recent.


Right? David Attenborough has covered this shiat in at least two documentary series
 
SirDigbyChickenCaesar
2023-01-28 7:12:45 PM  
Lets see if it can survive my morning constitutional
 
recondite cetacean
2023-01-28 7:23:38 PM  
What sort of god would have created this?

Sure, plants need fertilizer. But going from eating insects first, which in itself is just mind boggling, to attracting things to shiat on you, is absurd.

I should start a museum with at least this, and a sign pointing to it that reads "What sort of god would have created this?"

And the platypus. A museum of this and the platypus. And Donald Trump. Wait, I'll come in again.
 
Ghastly [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:53:47 PM  
I think I read that manga.
 
calufrax
2023-01-28 8:19:46 PM  
Wake me when they evolve tongues as well...
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Excelsior
2023-01-28 8:59:40 PM  

calufrax: Wake me when they evolve tongues as well...
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La-di-dah, mr "a toilet plant isn't good enough, wake me up when they evolve a bidet"?
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 9:27:35 PM  

Ghastly: I think I read that manga.


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Made in Abyss?
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-01-28 10:22:20 PM  
Hmm.  If they know how to feed them, then this guy can start raising them:

https://carnivorousplantnursery.com

(He's a former science teacher who got a few to get his students interested in plants, and started a business raising them)
 
studebaker hoch
2023-01-29 3:36:32 PM  
They even evolved a lid that is permanently in the up position.
 
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